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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dangerous Travel: Countries to avoid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/03/2013 17:30 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What about Detroit and areas of Chicago? They do not show on the US map.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/03/2013 18:50 Comments || Top||

#2  What about Canada? It doesn't even rate any color!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/03/2013 18:51 Comments || Top||

#3  It's a Canadian map, Bobby. They assumed their target audience already knew the dangerous areas of Canada.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/03/2013 19:38 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Brutality against police
[Bangla Daily Star] In Monday's Rajshahi violence four police officials were made the target of Shibir- inflicted brutality. Of them, the worst victim was on-duty Sub-Inspector Jahngir Alam at the Shalbagan area of the Rajshahi city.

It is worthwhile to note that during the incident, the attackers made indiscriminate use of homemade bombs that emitted smoke to temporarily blind the victim police.

The Shibir men used similar tactics in their Sunday's attack in which the wrist of a member of riot police was blown away, while in another attack in November last year they snatched a weapon from a policeman in the city.

Recently, the members of the police have been increasingly coming under attacks from Shibir men in different parts of the country. This brings to the fore the issue of security of the members of the police force themselves. This is a sad commentary on the law-enforcers who are supposed to give security to the citizens, but are themselves coming under attack.

This is something unprecedented and there is no scope for taking it lightly. It is important to note that in most of the reported cases, the victims were not injured during combat with street agitators. On the contrary, they were targets of surprise attacks in isolated situations.

To all appearances, these terrorist attacks on the police are carried out in a pre-meditated fashion, the sole purpose of which is to create anarchy in society.

This is a new type of political violence the law-enforcers are faced with. The traditional methods of tackling street violence cannot work here. This calls for a different kind of approach to fight it. The police authorities need to give a harder look into the phenomenon and devise an appropriate strategy to face it.

When police security is threatened in this manner, one can easilily imagine the state of public security. The government cannot allow this to continue and must act affirmatively.
Posted by: Fred || 04/03/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Krugman’s California Dreaming - VDH
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/03/2013 11:08 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uhhhhhhh, yeahhhhhh.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/03/2013 14:43 Comments || Top||


Two California Economies Head In Different Directions
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/03/2013 10:59 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scathing comments at the bottom of this article. Worse than anything I've ever said. Not that I disagree with them. They're just a lot more scathing.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/03/2013 15:54 Comments || Top||

#2  The writers were too nice.

California is a wreck.

Public employees are making far above the state average in income, housing is too expensive, and there are just not any jobs for the construction industry except for public works.

We have the highest taxes, the worst schools, the highest paid teachers, and the state government is full of counterculture lefties and retreaded hippies who think Cuba is an excellent example of a government.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 04/03/2013 23:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
"SOCOM Steps Up"
Posted by: tipper || 04/03/2013 14:02 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is the price Igantius had to pay in order to get inside stuff in order to write a book exposing SOCOM as a bunch of senior officers living off hot volunteer hostesses in Tampa.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 04/03/2013 20:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The past decade may have shown the limits of conventional military power, but it has also demonstrated the potency of the unconventional SOF arsenal. The most dramatic examples are the secret task forces that killed bin Laden in Pakistan and targeted hundreds of other extremists in night raids in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Pats on the back all around, and how long again did it take to win WWII.....?

Given enough time, the hooah factor takes hold and people begin believing their own SHI*
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/03/2013 20:37 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Leaps of empathy
A refutation Of Obama's bien pesantism.
Posted by: tipper || 04/03/2013 13:32 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a vapid statement Obama made, if Israeli parents just sat with Palestinian children they would want them to succeed. They don't have a say in the success of failure of Palestinian children, but Palestinian adults do and they would rather turn them into bombs. So the cycle of violence continues and idiots try to pressure Israel because at least they feel guilt and you can talk to them.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/03/2013 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Who was it that said there will be peace with the Paliestinians when they love their children more then they hate Jews?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/03/2013 14:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Golda Meir said it best when she said the conflict would end when Moslems in general and Palestinians in particular begin "love their children more than they hate us."

Obviously, children and women are only a bit higher on the social food chain than livestock and house cats according to the Queeran.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 04/03/2013 15:09 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2013-04-03
  N. Korea approves nuclear strike on US
Tue 2013-04-02
  Dutch Hold 4, Search for Alleged Sarin Nerve Agent
Mon 2013-04-01
  Al Nusra Front chieftain killed in Syria
Sun 2013-03-31
  North Korea Declares 'State of War' with Seoul
Sat 2013-03-30
  Hundreds rally against Egypt's prosecutor general
Fri 2013-03-29
  52 Taliban killed in one day in Afghanistan
Thu 2013-03-28
  Sectarian clashes in central Nigeria kill 23: Military
Wed 2013-03-27
  Bangla: 12 vehicles torched, Train compartment set ablaze, police station bombed
Tue 2013-03-26
  Egypt: ‘Morality Police’ Thrashed for Whipping Woman
Mon 2013-03-25
  Riad al-Asaad, Syrian rebel commander, loses leg in bomb attack
Sun 2013-03-24
  Syria Rebels Seize Key Military Base in Daraa
Sat 2013-03-23
  Miqati Announces Resignation
Fri 2013-03-22
  Gunfire, bloodshed as hundreds clash outside Muslim Brotherhood HQ in Cairo
Thu 2013-03-21
  One Killed in (Leb) Tripoli Clashes after Shooting Erupts at Hospital
Wed 2013-03-20
  Ghassan Hitto voted premier of Syria's rebel territory


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